Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python2-flask  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-PYTHON2FLASK-5455645
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed18 May 2020

Introduced: 18 May 2020

CVE-2020-8166  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-352  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python2-flask package and not the python2-flask package as distributed by RHEL.

A CSRF forgery vulnerability exists in rails < 5.2.5, rails < 6.0.4 that makes it possible for an attacker to, given a global CSRF token such as the one present in the authenticity_token meta tag, forge a per-form CSRF token.